Cgats Subcommittes & Their Activities

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Subcommittee 3 - Metrology Development of standards for the measurement of optical characteristics (e.g., densitometry, colorimetry, etc.) of graphic arts images and materials.


Subcommittee 3 Task Force 1 - Objective Color Matching Development of a method based on colorimetric measurements which will estimate the probability that hardcopy images reproduced by single or multiple systems, using identical input, will appear similar to the typical human observer.


Subcommittee 4 - Process Control Development of standards that support the application of printing process control (e.g., process definition, characterization, analysis, control tools, etc.).


Subcommittee 5 - Materials Handling Identification of needs relating to handling of materials used in, or produced by, the printing or converting process.


Subcommittee 6 Working Group 1 - PDF/X Development of a set of standards to be used for the electronic exchange of files using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

Subcommittee 6 Working Group 2 - Variable Data Exchange Development of a standard relating to the creation and exchange of documents that combine both database information and variable content.

Subcommittee 6 Working Group 3 - Diecutting Data (IT8.6) Maintainance of IT8.6-2002, "Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange - Diecutting data (DDES3)".


Subcommittee 9 Working Group 2 - Ink and Color Characterization for Packaging Development of a procedure to characterize package printing of standard and non-standard process colors

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